Andrew Greeley Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.”

“Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.”

“An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.”

“The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.”

“Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.”

“One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.”

“Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?”

“I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.”

“Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.”

“I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.”